Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst takes a walk with the mystics on the band’s latest album. He sees ”crooked crosses falling from the sky,” invokes Haile Selassie, and has a guest ”shaman” wax cosmic about the future of the universe. ”I’ve seen stranger things, man,” Oberst insists. Really? Fortunately, the music stays grounded, with Oberst trading his recent country-folk fixation for pop choruses and electro beats that New Order might dig. BDownload These: Surging Shell Games at last.fm Keyboard-saturated Triple Spiral at last.fm